Teachers at a 70-year-old crafts school in Midtown Manhattan are using their creative energies for a new project – finding their popular program a new home.

The Craft Students League, a program of the YWCA since 1932, is temporarily shut down and in search of new space following the Y’s January announcement that it sold its 53rd Street location for $31.5 million. The money will be used for the entire New York City YWCA system. The League has operated from that building since the 1970s.

“We are actively meeting with a team of consultants to figure out the best way to find a space,” said Fran Perrone, the director of the Craft Students League.

The school will not hold spring and summer classes, but hopes to reopen in the fall in a new space.

“That’s certainly the goal,” Perrone said, adding that the League needs between 15,000 and 20,000 square feet. “But with the market the way it is, I don’t know if that’s going to be feasible.”